You know, I can completely see him starting off his show, on a makeshift throne, with a crown on his head and a scepter in hand, declaring himself "King of the Philippines".
So, explain to me how this would work, with thousands of legitimate users, and tens of thousands of illigitimate users, many of which may be successfully posing as legitimate users. Remember, if they can just "post" more votes than phillipines has people, then the whole thing is proved invalid.
Do you have any idea the hundreds of thousands of hours that would be wasted if every game made all of their own unique textures. How different do you want that crate to look from game to game? What about that door? Or how about on a smaller scale, what about the trash texture used to cover the top of a garbage dumpster, do you want to recreate that for every game just to give it another point of difference that nobody will notice?
Excuse me for a moment if I quote a person of great wisdom, myself, from when this story came around the first time.
Remember this is a Zonk story.
It is a allegation that stalker may possibly use the same assets as are used in HL2 or D3, and an assumption that they did not pay for the rights to use these (through purchasing the same developer tools, or simply paying eachother off).
Good ol Zonk, posting a story that is not just an assumption, but an assumption of an assumption.
Well, they only have a few small factors working against them.
1: Less performance than XP.
2: Lots of bugs.
3: Perceived lack of need to upgrade.
4: The fact that china is the piracy capital of the world.
5: Windows vista costs more than two dozen weeks wages for the average worker, so its expensive even to the rich.
But if they had open document formats, then they'd have to actually "compete" on a "fair" playing field. They haven't done that since they ripped apple's interface schema to layer ontop of dos.
Just remember, private schools don't always "require" teachers to have teaching degrees, they don't avertise this, but its true (NYS law means they can hire whoever they want, as long as they work in a GED equivalent curriculum). My spanish teacher there was actually some student's mother, who just happened to speak spanish. Although, I did have a few masters or PHD teachers too, so its a mixed bag there.
Though on a side note I wouldn't look too closely at Allendale as a school in Rochester either, they're a bit strict, and you know how strict schools make students go a bit loopy.
Actually, after the last bill that passed (that levied fines hard enough to destroy 50-60% of all internet radio stations a few years back), most of them have moved offshore. The only ones that are in the USA now are little ones that dont care about legality, or huge ones that banded together to survive the fines. Now they just have a reason to offshore their servers.
Chalk one up for private schools, mine had an administrator with no teaching experience (or so it seemed), who used to teach phys ed. Good-ol Harley school of Rochester.
He means it doesn't have desires and motives in a conventional sense. The way it works mathamatically means that it seeks the lowest value (or highest, depending on the AI) for the next nodal jump, and finds a path that leads to the most likely solution.
This could be "converted" to traditional desires, meaning that if you taught it to find the most attractive woman, and gave it ranked values based on body features and what features are considered attractive in conjunction, it would "have" the "desire" to find the most beautiful woman in any given group.
I'd say that researchers need to learn to put things into layman's terms, but all we need are good editors to put it into simpler terms, really.
So, your saying that just because its complex, it can't be done? Think about that for a moment, if only "god" could make it, then he would be breaking his own laws of nature, physics, quantium physics, and such. This is because every child, quite literally, makes his own brain, through growth. When you are in the womb, your cells split and become specilized and eventually make a structure known as a brain.
We've proven that we can change a creature's basic DNA, to make it different than it was, to make it grow up to be something different, all we're doing is re-inventing a different kind of brain by using an existing example as a model.
So, before you go off and read your king james edition of the bible, assuming your one of those blind-eyed, deaf-eared christians from the bible belt (and ooh boy, if you ever did any "real" research on the history of that thing you would know why so many people are becoming atheists), try using that brain you built yourself.
Back about 10 years ago when I was a kid hanging out at my dad's office after school or on weekends(usually playing Doom1, the only good computers were at his office and he worked insane hours), he was across the hall from his ISP, and they were a friendly lot so we'd stop over and say hi and go to lunch together and stuff like that.
They would always be telling me about problems, finding people who are using way too much bandwidth, significantly more than usual, and how they'd institute an upper cap on those people to make sure they wern't running their own ISP off of the line that they were provided (back in the day people used to buy T1 lines, and turn their homes into little dial-up ISP services).
So theres always been prioritizing of traffic, even if it wasn't always an automatic process. But, I would like to point out, that this guy sounds more like the crazy dishevled homeless guy on the corner "OMGZORZ, MY FAX NO WORK! CONSPIRACY AND RANTYNESS" than really newsworthy
Actually, security through obscurity does work, against a significant number of potential hackers (80% or more). The more determined ones are going to be doing it anyway, but it at least stops the clumsy hackers. I'd rather have 50 hackers having cracked the Wii protection than 500.
Anyone else find it funny that this came out just as they were putting people together to push out the new updates?
I have this mental image of a guy in overalls hauling boxes and boxes of patched DVDs out to the truck, looking up at the news-monitor in the shipping yard, and just a single tear falling.
My point was not that it was going to affect it, but rather that it simply isn't the VP of hardware's job to talk to us about it. Do you expect the guys down in engineering to make the press releases? or the marketing guys?
Um, because they don't want people being able to hack the virtual console, and possibly hack into other people's Wiis and steal their points, or some such?
And by saying you only use Open Source software, that means you don't use any consoles, because none of them are open source. Or use blue ray disks, or HD disks, or office products, or most websites...
Open source zealots really need to be better informed before they go off on these rants, makes the rest of you intelligent OSS people look bad.
Well, I imagine the output is probably less, maybe half, if just using vehicle vibrations, but its certainly enough to power a tire pressure gauge, and the article did say something as small as your own pulse is enough of a vibration to power it.
Ok, so assume your wearing gloves on your hands. And your hands are (work with me here, this is a complete guess) about 15 centimeters long by 10 wide, thats 150 cubic centimeters. However, you need your hands in there, so only about 1/8th of that is useable space, so 18.75 cubic centimeters that you could put on gloves and not have a huge problem with. According to his 4 watts per cubic centimeter, we're looking at about the power of a lightbulb (75 watts), per hand. An espresso machine is 1100 watts. You'd need basically an entire body-suit to power an espresso machine.
I bought a Wii, a half dozen games, a gamecube controller, gamecube memory card, another half dozen gamecube games, and an extra wii-mote, and only just barely hit the cost of a ps3. That was the biggest selling point to me.
Use the nunchuck as a movement joystick, and the remote has 2 easy access buttons (1,2) and the nunchuck has 2 (c,z), along with 4 menu buttons (up,left,right,down arrows) and two option buttons (plus,minus). Not terribly many games use more than 4 quick access buttons, and 6 menu buttons. A few, yes, but not really that many.
Most games do use just one joystick, unless its a FPS game, which traditionally use two, and you can see why the Wii won't need two joysticks.
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You know, I can completely see him starting off his show, on a makeshift throne, with a crown on his head and a scepter in hand, declaring himself "King of the Philippines".
So, explain to me how this would work, with thousands of legitimate users, and tens of thousands of illigitimate users, many of which may be successfully posing as legitimate users. Remember, if they can just "post" more votes than phillipines has people, then the whole thing is proved invalid.
By "so noticeable" you mean that nobody noticed until someone HACKED the game files and found the water texture raw files?
Do you have any idea the hundreds of thousands of hours that would be wasted if every game made all of their own unique textures. How different do you want that crate to look from game to game? What about that door? Or how about on a smaller scale, what about the trash texture used to cover the top of a garbage dumpster, do you want to recreate that for every game just to give it another point of difference that nobody will notice?
Well, they only have a few small factors working against them.
1: Less performance than XP.
2: Lots of bugs.
3: Perceived lack of need to upgrade.
4: The fact that china is the piracy capital of the world.
5: Windows vista costs more than two dozen weeks wages for the average worker, so its expensive even to the rich.
But if they had open document formats, then they'd have to actually "compete" on a "fair" playing field. They haven't done that since they ripped apple's interface schema to layer ontop of dos.
Just remember, private schools don't always "require" teachers to have teaching degrees, they don't avertise this, but its true (NYS law means they can hire whoever they want, as long as they work in a GED equivalent curriculum). My spanish teacher there was actually some student's mother, who just happened to speak spanish. Although, I did have a few masters or PHD teachers too, so its a mixed bag there.
Though on a side note I wouldn't look too closely at Allendale as a school in Rochester either, they're a bit strict, and you know how strict schools make students go a bit loopy.
Actually, after the last bill that passed (that levied fines hard enough to destroy 50-60% of all internet radio stations a few years back), most of them have moved offshore. The only ones that are in the USA now are little ones that dont care about legality, or huge ones that banded together to survive the fines. Now they just have a reason to offshore their servers.
Chalk one up for private schools, mine had an administrator with no teaching experience (or so it seemed), who used to teach phys ed. Good-ol Harley school of Rochester.
Just remember a valuable lesson from our dear departed Mr John Candy, all vulgar spraypaint must be in BOTH english and french.
The point I was making is that there really isn't one. Its like the difference between analog radio and digital radio, in the end its still radio.
He means it doesn't have desires and motives in a conventional sense. The way it works mathamatically means that it seeks the lowest value (or highest, depending on the AI) for the next nodal jump, and finds a path that leads to the most likely solution.
This could be "converted" to traditional desires, meaning that if you taught it to find the most attractive woman, and gave it ranked values based on body features and what features are considered attractive in conjunction, it would "have" the "desire" to find the most beautiful woman in any given group.
I'd say that researchers need to learn to put things into layman's terms, but all we need are good editors to put it into simpler terms, really.
So, your saying that just because its complex, it can't be done?
Think about that for a moment, if only "god" could make it, then he would be breaking his own laws of nature, physics, quantium physics, and such. This is because every child, quite literally, makes his own brain, through growth. When you are in the womb, your cells split and become specilized and eventually make a structure known as a brain.
We've proven that we can change a creature's basic DNA, to make it different than it was, to make it grow up to be something different, all we're doing is re-inventing a different kind of brain by using an existing example as a model.
So, before you go off and read your king james edition of the bible, assuming your one of those blind-eyed, deaf-eared christians from the bible belt (and ooh boy, if you ever did any "real" research on the history of that thing you would know why so many people are becoming atheists), try using that brain you built yourself.
Back about 10 years ago when I was a kid hanging out at my dad's office after school or on weekends(usually playing Doom1, the only good computers were at his office and he worked insane hours), he was across the hall from his ISP, and they were a friendly lot so we'd stop over and say hi and go to lunch together and stuff like that.
They would always be telling me about problems, finding people who are using way too much bandwidth, significantly more than usual, and how they'd institute an upper cap on those people to make sure they wern't running their own ISP off of the line that they were provided (back in the day people used to buy T1 lines, and turn their homes into little dial-up ISP services).
So theres always been prioritizing of traffic, even if it wasn't always an automatic process. But, I would like to point out, that this guy sounds more like the crazy dishevled homeless guy on the corner "OMGZORZ, MY FAX NO WORK! CONSPIRACY AND RANTYNESS" than really newsworthy
Sadly, they weren't smart enough to layer a self-destruct over an encrypt.
Actually, security through obscurity does work, against a significant number of potential hackers (80% or more). The more determined ones are going to be doing it anyway, but it at least stops the clumsy hackers. I'd rather have 50 hackers having cracked the Wii protection than 500.
Anyone else find it funny that this came out just as they were putting people together to push out the new updates?
I have this mental image of a guy in overalls hauling boxes and boxes of patched DVDs out to the truck, looking up at the news-monitor in the shipping yard, and just a single tear falling.
My point was not that it was going to affect it, but rather that it simply isn't the VP of hardware's job to talk to us about it.
Do you expect the guys down in engineering to make the press releases? or the marketing guys?
Um, because they don't want people being able to hack the virtual console, and possibly hack into other people's Wiis and steal their points, or some such?
And by saying you only use Open Source software, that means you don't use any consoles, because none of them are open source. Or use blue ray disks, or HD disks, or office products, or most websites...
Open source zealots really need to be better informed before they go off on these rants, makes the rest of you intelligent OSS people look bad.
Well, I imagine the output is probably less, maybe half, if just using vehicle vibrations, but its certainly enough to power a tire pressure gauge, and the article did say something as small as your own pulse is enough of a vibration to power it.
Ok, so assume your wearing gloves on your hands. And your hands are (work with me here, this is a complete guess) about 15 centimeters long by 10 wide, thats 150 cubic centimeters. However, you need your hands in there, so only about 1/8th of that is useable space, so 18.75 cubic centimeters that you could put on gloves and not have a huge problem with. According to his 4 watts per cubic centimeter, we're looking at about the power of a lightbulb (75 watts), per hand. An espresso machine is 1100 watts.
You'd need basically an entire body-suit to power an espresso machine.
I bought a Wii, a half dozen games, a gamecube controller, gamecube memory card, another half dozen gamecube games, and an extra wii-mote, and only just barely hit the cost of a ps3. That was the biggest selling point to me.
Use the nunchuck as a movement joystick, and the remote has 2 easy access buttons (1,2) and the nunchuck has 2 (c,z), along with 4 menu buttons (up,left,right,down arrows) and two option buttons (plus,minus).
Not terribly many games use more than 4 quick access buttons, and 6 menu buttons. A few, yes, but not really that many.
Most games do use just one joystick, unless its a FPS game, which traditionally use two, and you can see why the Wii won't need two joysticks.
You do realize, its the VP of marketing's JOB to tell us crap, the VP of hardware production and logistics should be out there making us more Wii-s.